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The chapter follows all the main action of The Lord of the Rings. The story tells how the One Ring, a ring of power made by the Dark Lord Sauron, lost for many centuries, has reappeared and is in the hands of a hobbit, Frodo Baggins, in the England-like [1] Shire. If Sauron finds the Ring, he will use it to take over the whole of Middle-earth.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 December 2024. R. J. Palacio novel Wonder Front cover, illustrated by Tad Carpenter Author R. J. Palacio Cover artist Tad Carpenter Subject Prejudice Self-acceptance Middle school Friendship Bullying Genre Children's novel Publisher Alfred A. Knopf Publication date 14 February 2012 Pages 310 Awards ...
Inside rear cover (endpaper 2) is the Map of Wilderland in blue ink. Preface is excerpted from the forward to The Hobbit 50th Anniversary Edition by Christopher Tolkien published in 1987. Notes on the text by Douglas A. Anderson from 2001. Chapter 1 of The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Long-Expected Party", appears as an appendix.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien.It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction.
Allegorical portrait of a knight reaching his princess at the end of his quest.In the background, he kills a dragon. Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1515–20. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was an English Roman Catholic writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, both set in Middle-earth.
[T 1] The Lonely Mountain is the destination of the protagonists, including the titular Hobbit Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, and is the scene of the novel's climax. The mountain has been described as the goal of Bilbo's psychological quest in The Hobbit ; scholars have noted that it and The Lord of the Rings are both structured as quests to a ...
The Red Book of Westmarch (sometimes the Thain's Book [T 1] after its principal version) is a fictional manuscript written by hobbits, related to the author J. R. R. Tolkien's frame stories. It is an instance of the found manuscript conceit, [1] a literary device to explain the source of his legendarium.
The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is an edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit with a commentary by Douglas A. Anderson.It was first published in 1988 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first American publication of The Hobbit, and by Unwin Hyman of London.